IHOP Buttermilk Pancakes

You can make IHOP buttermilk pancakes just like they do—it is easy to do! We are proud of this long-awaited creation. Enjoy these famous pancakes at home! You can make a plateful of the IHOP Buttermilk Pancakes for you and your family. IHOP Buttermilk Pancakes are hearty pancakes. Be sure to make some of these very soon.

Who doesn’t love a great big stack of IHOP’s famous pancakes? Now you can have these anytime without a long line. I sometimes know on the weekend the line can go out the door. But you can make a great big stack of these at home.

I love these pancakes they have a wonderfully fresh taste. They aren’t hard to make at all. Sometimes when I make a batch of these, I make some to stick in the freezer so I can enjoy them later. I lay the on a cookie sheet, freeze the pancakes individually flat, when they are completely frozen I move them to a single zip top bag and I am set.

For making this recipe you can use a griddle, or a large skillet. To make these I prefer a griddle, because I can make a whole batch at once. Skillets work well, I like to heat my oven to around 200 degrees and pop the cooked pancakes on a cookie sheet and keep them warm until I have cooked all of them.

Instructions

Place the flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, and baking soda in a bowl; Whisk them to mix. Add the buttermilk, oil and egg. With a spoon, mix all ingredients and beat until smooth. If batter seems to be too thick while you’re cooking the pancakes, add a little more buttermilk and mix well.Heat a skillet or a griddle over medium-low heat. Brush with a little oil or spray with nonstick cooking spray.

Pour in batter until it spreads to the desired size. Let the batter start to show small bubbles on top before you turn the pancake over to finish cooking. Turning pancakes is made much easier if you spray your pancake turner with a nonstick spray. The turner does not stick to the uncooked pancake batter when you are turning them. Cook the pancakes until golden on both sides. Serve warm with your favorite syrup. This recipe makes about nine 4" - 5" pancakes. Serve warm with your favorite syrup.

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I recreate your favorite restaurant recipes, so you can prepare these dishes at home. I help you cook dinner, and serve up dishes you know your family will love. You can find most of the ingredients for all of the recipes in your local grocery store.

These pancakes were amazing! They taste just like IHOP. Instead of using cooking spray we use real butter to coat the skillet. All of the required ingredients is cheap. I never go to IHOP anymore because I can make the same quality pancakes in the confront of my House. Every time I make these people love them. I’m a very picky eater, and I love these. If you love pancakes you will love this recipe!

I made these this morning and they were delicious!!! However, like some of the comments suggested, I would not grease my stainless steel griddle so that the pancakes would have a nice even color, instead of spots. Aside from the spotty look (which was completely my fault), the pancakes were light, fluffy, and delicious! My entire family enjoyed them. Thank you!

Delicious! I’ve made many different homemade pancakes recipes but was never able to replicate the signature IHOP taste. These are definitely a great replication! I never have buttermilk on hand so I soured milk. I also don’t spray the griddle or use butter on the pan as the pancakes get that signature all over golden brown surface by not greasing the surface. If you’re looking for pancakes with that “something special” these are it.

Has a former IHOP cook, I will tell you there is one serious error in this recipe. IHOP does not use cooking spray or oil to cook the pancake. A pancake will not stick to a properly prepared griddle or non stick cooking surface. Using cooking spray or oil changes the top of the pancake from a soft sold golden color to a crispy splotched crater effect. You want to have the flavor of pure melted butter on the hot pancake as opposed to an absorbed flavor during cooking.

Thank you for your post. I have been making pancakes for a very long time. I would always apply butter to the cook surface. I could not get the desired effect on the finished product. I use a cast iron griddle that is always properly seasoned. By not applying butter or spray the pancakes came out perfect! This recipe is dead on. Thanks guys.

I lived in America for the past two years as an exchange student, and IHOP was one of my favorite restaurants. Right now I am back in Brazil, where I’m from, and this pancakes recipe definitely made me feel like I was eating at IHOP, I loved it. And my mom put her hands down to it too !!!

However, if there’s one thing I do differently and would change its that the egg white be separated from the yolk. Mix the yolk with the wet ingredients and beat the white separately until slightly stiff.

Fold the egg white into the batter slowly at the end after you have mixed all your wet and dry ingredients together. This way you get the fluffiest pancakes.

Awesome recipe. My kids used to pass off my pancake before I found your recipe. Since then they ask me if I can make it the night before and now we look forward to our weekend mornings. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks so much for this recipe! It’s perfect! However, I have a small problem: When I had just started to make these pancakes, they came out with a nice, even tan color. Recently, though, they have been lighter colored and thin around the edges with a small tan patch in the center. How should I fix this, by changing the temperature of the griddle?

I don’t know if you are making these on a skillet or a griddle. It sounds like to me, the griddle is not heating as evenly as it should. You might want to try making the pancakes on different spots on the grill.

So good!!! Seriously! Eating them hot off the griddle as I type. Light, fluffy and perfect. My 13 y/o son made these with my guidance and we will never need another recipe. I honestly don’t know who can give this a bad review unless they did something wrong. Thank you for sharing 🙂

My mother always made sure the griddle was hot enough (so the first pancake wasn’t wasted) by lightly sprinkling a few (2 or 3) drops of water on the hot griddle to see if it was hot enough to make the water droplets “dance”.

If they danced, the griddle was ready to cook those yummy, golden hotcakes, pancakes, or flap-jacks. Whatever the name, they are loved by generations.

One more tip to “up” the yum factor? Right before turning your pancakes, sprinkle chocolate chips on the uncooked side, then flip the pancake so that the pancake/hotcake can briefly cook until done. Yummy!

I got a recipe for their pancakes a looong time ago (before 2009) and they truly tasted perfect I thought it was this site, but the sugar here is measured in teaspoons so I don’t trust it. I can believe they were bland. Wondering what measurement everyone that raved about them, was using.

I tried this today and the pancakes came out super super thin, they almost looked like crepes. My wife and I don’t live in the US, so we were excited about trying this and were disappointed in the end, but we’re not giving up though. I followed the recipe to the letter. I did not have buttermilk so I had to do it using milk and vinegar to create the buttermilk. Are you sure it is that much flour and not more? I’ll give it another try soon, any suggestions?

I don’t know where you are, but it could be the flour is not the same as US flour. If they were too thin you could have added more flour to make them thick. I have only make these with store bought buttermilk, they are needed for lift the pancakes have. Again, I would have added additional flour.

I made these this morning- super easy! I did have to add a little more flour, because for whatever reason, mine were super thin. I didn’t have any buttermilk, so I had to sour the milk myself. I also added blueberries to them- just put them in after I put 1/4 cup of the batter in the pan. I will probably make these again!

I tried the recipe today and I will say it is a good starter recipe. I added a little extra salt and sugar, and a little water to thin the batter out. Needless to say these were the best pancakes I had ever made.

Not as fluffy as Ihop. Seasoning is good, good sweetness. But it is heavy . I tried this recipe 3 days in a row, tried to make it fluffy. Would grade this recipe 100% if it is as fluffy as premixed store bought recipe. I am ready to try next recipe.

I made these yesterday. They were divine! They tasted a lot like IHOP! I cooked one batch with vegetable oil and one batch with butter. The vegetable oil worked better. This recipe is definitely a keeper in my book!!!

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